4.82 BlUDs UF BUITIsH GL'IAXA. 



332. Chloronerpes capistratus. 

 Bonaparte's Green Woodpecker. 



Chrysopicus capistratus Bonap. Consp. Yolucr. Zvgod. p. 9, no. 151, 



1851 ("BresU"). 

 Chloronerpes capistratus Hargitt, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xriii. p. 74. 1890 



(Rupununi Kiver) ; Braboume & Chubb, B. S. Amer. i. p. 169, 



no. 1673, 1912. 



Adult male. General colour above golden green including the 

 back, wings, and tail ; quills blackish with golden green on the 

 outer webs and cinnamon-rnfous on the inner webs towards the 

 base ; tail like the back, the sliafts and tips of the feathers inclin- 

 ing to black ; sides of the face similar to the back, with a line of 

 golden yellow from the base of the bill and below the eve on to 

 tlie sides of the neck; cro.vn of head and nape red; malar 

 region more or le.-s tinged with red ; entire under surface dull 

 oiiye-green barred with buffy-white ; under wing-coverts and 

 quill-lining cinnamon-rufous ; edge of wing yellowish, with dark 

 edges to the feathers. 



Total length 245 mm., culmen 31, ■wing 140, tail 75, tarsus 24. 



Adult female. Differs from the adult male in the absence of the 

 red on crown of the head and nape and in the malar region beinc 

 uniform green without any tinge af red. Wing 142 mm. 



This species is not represented in the McConnell collection, and 

 the descriptions are taken from specimens in the British Museum 

 collected by Whitel}- on the Rupununi Kiver in April and July, 

 1889 — Salvin-Godman collection. 



Breeding -season. Unknown in British Guiana. 



Sest. Unrecorded in British Guiana. 



Egys. Undescribed from British Guiana. 



Range in British Guiana. Rupununi River ( WJdtely). 



Extralinntal Range. North Brazil, Ecuador. 



Hahits. Unrecorded in British Guiana. 



333. Chloronerpes fiavigula. 



Yellow-thkuated Gi;een Woodpecker. 



Picxisjlavigida Bodd. Tabl. PL Enl. p. 49, 17S3 (Cayenne). 

 Chloronerpjes chrysocephalus Cab. in Schomb. iieis. Guiau. iii. p 716 

 1848. 



